Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
northeastward .
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- adverb Towards the
northeast .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a northeastward direction
Etymologies
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Examples
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Diverse, folded, and faulted, partly glaciated ecoregion with northeastwardly trending, forested ridges and agricultural valleys; structurally distinct from the flat-lying rocks of Ecoregion 62.
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This stream is about one hundred feet wide, meandering northeastwardly through a beautiful and fertile valley, about ten miles in width.
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It is worthy of notice, that our mountains are not solitary and scattered confusedly over the face of the country; but that they commence at about one hundred and fifty miles from the sea-coast, are disposed in ridges, one behind another, running nearly parallel with the sea-coast, though rather approaching it as they advance northeastwardly.
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President's range crosses it, everything is fused -- burned; and at the distance of seventy miles northeastwardly from the Bay of San Francisco, a spur comes off with a lofty peak, which pours out immense quantities of lava, and shoots up a flame so broad and bright as to be seen at sea, and to produce distinct shadows at eighty miles 'distance.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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Let us enter by this gate, in the west wall, near the church, and advancing a few paces northeastwardly, read the brief and only record of one that shed his blood in the battle of Camden: --
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In the voyage which we made by order of your Majesty, in addition to the 92 degrees we ran towards the west from our point of departure, before we reached land in the latitude of 34, we have to count 300 leagues which we ran northeastwardly, and 400 nearly east along the coast before
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
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Instead of returning northeastwardly over the mountains, we now turned southeastwardly, in order to reach the Green
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We crossed these mountains, and zigzagged northeastwardly and northwestwardly in the angle formed by the three streams last mentioned.
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Rationally is a northeastwardly unproved liquescent in grocery, and when avirulent with the imprisoned longanimity, backrest to ideogram a overnight dyspeptic gynura.
Rational Review 2009
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"which we made by order of your majesty, in addition to the 92 degrees which we ran towards the west from our point of departure, before we reached land in latitude 34, we have to count 300 leagues which we ran northeastwardly and 400 nearly east, along the coast, before we reached the 50th parallel of north latitude, the point where we turned our course from the shore towards home."
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
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